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Posted by Chris Bronk, Senior Advisor, IRM's Office of eDiplomacy, U.S. Department of State
Editors note: We were excited to hear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself announced to State employees that they would be getting the Chrome browser. Now that they have it, we invited Chris to share some more details.
The State Department gave our employees around the world a special Valentine's Day gift as we made the Google Chrome browser available to all employees on February 14. This makes us the first U.S. cabinet department to make Chrome available department-wide.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the announcement to a town hall meeting of State Department employees, where it was greeted with rousing applause:
State's historical approach to browsers is to test compatibility with all corporate, enterprise-level applications and remediate any issues prior to full release. We've taken a different approach with Chrome. Offering Chrome as a browser option allows us to take full advantage of Chrome's speed -- from quick startup to rapid website loading -- plus the ability to access the full range of modern websites, and will allow our employees to be more productive in their work. When a new release of Chrome is made available with enhanced functionality or added security, we can release it into production immediately, bypassing cumbersome testing.
With Chrome for Business, our Information Resources Management (IRM) team was able to deploy Chrome quickly and securely. After two weeks, it has been installed on over 58,000 PCs around the world or around 60% of our enterprise. The administrative capabilities of Chrome for Business will allow IRM to manage the browser going forward, making sure that all employees are on the same version and can take advantage of new features that are regularly made available in new Chrome releases.
We're enthusiastic to be leading the charge to bring an enhanced web browsing experience to State employees executing the critical U.S. diplomatic mission around the world!

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Women's Choir
The Bulgarian people have long known that the human voice is much more expressive in song than in conversation. In their tradition, they have taken the art of singing to the top of its artistic expression. The perfection which is at the core of traditional Bulgarian folklore is the outcome of efforts dating back some thousand years ago and it has passed on from generation to generation through the centuries.
THE GREAT VOICES OF BULGARIA Women's Choir is a successor of The Women's Choir of Sofia, a group of professional singers that has existed for more than 50 years. Their throat vocal technique is based upon a completely natural kind of sound production, sustaining the voice by using the neck muscles, instead of the diaphragm. Since1980, under the direction of Zdravko Mihaylov, their repertoire was expanded to include arrangements of traditional Bulgarian music composed with modern harmony and polyphony. During the 1980's and early 1990's they merged with soloists from The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir, (of which Mihaylov was Principal Conductor from 1978 to 1983) and The Philip Koutev National Folk Ensemble. Thus creating the best possible collection of folklore voices in Bulgaria, and thanks to Mihaylov's abilities as a first - rate choirmaster, they gained international fame under the name Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares / The Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria, which won the Grammy Award and the Grand Prix de Disque and toured the world.
Soloists of the THE GREAT VOICES OF BULGARIA Women's Choir during the years have been: Elena Bozhkova, Kalinka Valcheva, Olga Borisova, Kremena Stancheva, Anastasia Kostova, Vasilka Andonova, Nadejda Chwoineva, Stoyanka Boneva, Violeta Nakova, Nadka Karadjova, Liliana Galevska, Stoyana Lalova, Yanka Taneva, Hristina Lutova, Tsvetanka Varimezova, and Zlatina Ouzounova.
Their traditional repertoire consists of the most popular and virtuoso songs of authentic Bulgarian folklore, arranged by composers such as Philip Koutev, Krassimir Kyurkchiysky, Stefan Moutafchiev, Kosta Kolev, Ivan Valev, Stefan Dragostinov, Peter Liondev, Stefan Kanev , Radko Enchev and others.
In 1999, after Zdravko Mihaylov's sudden death, his son Ilia Mihaylov became the Music Director of THE GREAT VOICES OF BULGARIA Women's Choir.
Highlights of their creative activities include: recording music for BBC Radio 3, collaborating with the renowned composer Мichel Colombier for the French label Naïve, creating the original score for Jean Epstein's 1923 silent film La Belle Nivernaise together the trio of the French jazz pianist François Raulin, premiering the Balkan Crossover Project with the Hungarian organist László Fassang and the traditional flute and bagpipe virtuoso Bálazs Dongó Sokolay, as well as the installation The Conductor for videoprojection and female folk singers, created by the visual artists Missirkov/Bogdanov.
THE GREAT VOICES OF BULGARIA Women's Choir regularly works with the emblematic Bulgarian musician, kaval virtuoso and composer Theodosii Spassov. Together they created several projects, one of them featuring Spassov's original composition, especially written for the choir. The project premiered at the Twelfth Salon des Arts festival at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia. Following this successful opening, the artists were invited to perform at the 2010 Donaufest in Germany where they were warmly received by the public and positively reviewed by the press.
Furthermore, the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs selected Mr. Mihaylov and the choir to produce two albums, Anthology and The Treasures of Bulgaria which were to become the country's official gift for the occasion of its joining The European Union. On New Year's Eve 2007, they performed in front an audience of 30 000 people at Sofia's Battenberg square together with the iconic progressive rock band FSB celebrating the same historic event.
In 2005 they were invited by Valery Gergiev at the Moscow Easter Festival and performed concerts in the Kremlin, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, and St. Peter's Monastery. In the same year the choir toured Canada and established a box office record, as one of their concerts sold 10 000 tickets.
THE GREAT VOICES OF BULGARIA Women's Choir and Ilia Mihaylov were featured in three documentaries – Glasove (2005) produced by the National Film Center, Off Stage (2005) by the award winning director Andrey Paounov, and most recently in 2010 by the French music television MEZZO, which was included in the prestigious series The Choirs of Europe, a very high honor as only ten emblematic choirs and conductors were featured in this program.


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Teresa Palmer & Felicity Jones - Golden Globes Party 2013
Teresa Palmer, Felicity Jones, and Kelli Garner arrive on the red carpet at the InStyle party following the 2013 Golden Globes held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 13) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The ladies joined each other during their arrival to pose together for some cute photos.
Teresa looked lovely in an Oscar de la Renta gown and Christian Louboutin shoes. Felicity wore a Miu Miu gown, while Kelli wore a Catherine Malandrino dress, a Swarovski clutch, and Manolo Blahnik heels.
Kelli's boyfriend, The Big Bang Theory actor Johnny Galecki, was kind enough to cover the actress' shoulders with his jacket as they left.


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Good news everybody. October 1st is no longer the day that the MCM was prescribed to die. The Microsoft Certified Master is now on life support until December 31st, 2013. Which means that the Jan 1st (for any interested in New Years resolutions), the Advanced Certifications at Microsoft will have been terminated and any who possess the certification will instantly become myths, legends, and items of folklore. Ok so that last bit might be a bit of an exaggeration.
Here is a screen grab from the Advanced Certification Site here. I added the nice red boxes and underline for emphasis.
While this bodes well for those that had committed to training rotations, or who had committed to hours of study and only had the Lab Exam remaining, the program is still being terminated. Many are still unhappy. Many have moved on through the grief cycle. Polls have been taken, articles (here, here, and here) written and meetings held. In the end, Microsoft sort of acknowledged that they alienated a huge faction of their supporting community. Bumping the death date back to December 31st is a sign of that.
I am happy that a meeting was held after the community outcry. It is far better than nothing at all. I am also happy that the date has been bumped back. I was not happy with the initial announcement and the manner it was done. I am not yet satisfied that Microsoft will do anything to promote a Master level with their products. In fact, as others have said (and I am sure many more have silently supported), I am uncertain I could advocate an advanced certification for Microsoft again. I am uncertain that I could support an advanced certification for Microsoft from a 3rd party vendor.
If there is ever to be an advanced certification for Microsoft SQL Server, I will have to think long and hard about the value and worth of pursuing it. All of that said, I value learning and I reiterate something that Paul Randal wrote on his survey results post:
Although the MCM has been removed as the focus point for learning goals, learning still goes on, and people will still aspire to make themselves better SQL Server professionals.
Don't give up learning – it's always worth it.
If you have passed your Knowledge Exam, I say go for the lab exam. Test yourself and see if you can tame the beast. If for nothing else other than to measure yourself and provide a bit of a self-evaluation. Don't hesitate and leave yourself wondering if you could have accomplished that goal.
I know one person that has been pondering if he should do it. He had been planning on attempting the MCM exams next year. Obviously the change from Microsoft has changed his plans and made him question the value of attempting. My advice to him was to take the exams, and especially now that the MCM is on Life Support.
It is far better to attempt the exams (for those that are still on the fence), than it is to live in regret and doubt. Worst case, you fail the exam and have a fair amount of introspect that will happen because of it. Best case is you will pass the exams, be an MCM for life, and still have a fair amount of introspect that will happen because of it.


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Yes it's true, the best drama on TV these days features zombies. The second season of THE WALKING DEAD arrives this week on DVD and this is one series that not only keeps getting better but stays original and draws viewers in at a steady even pace.
If you missed the first season the apocalypse has come upon the Earth not in the form of war but in a virus that has brought the dead back to life with an unquenchable thirst for blood. As they attack the living each new victim becomes another member of the walking dead, hungry as those who turned them.
Into this world we saw Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) wake from a coma (he was a sheriff wounded in the line of duty) to an empty hospital. He struggled but found his way home to discover his wife and son were there no more and he set off in search of them, eventually reuniting with them and unaware that thinking he was dead his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) had taken up with his best friend Shane (Jon Bernthall). With a ragtag group of allies they headed to the CDC only do discover one last survivor there who then blew up the facility at the close of that season.
Season two begins with the group on the road once more heading towards Ft. Benning. When they get stuck in a traffic jam on the highway and their RV breaks down, they look for replacement parts only to have a herd of zombies head their way. For the most part they do well but two leftover zombies spot young Sophia and she heads into the woods. Rick follows, finds her and directs her back to the group while he distracts the zombies and then kills them. When he returns Sophia is no where to be found and the group spends their time searching for her. At the end of the first episode while they search, Rick's son Carl is shot by a stray hunter's bullet.
Episode two gets us to the place where the hunter lives, a farm with its own group of survivors led by the farm's owner Hershel (Scott Wilson). A veterinarian, he saves Carl and the rest of the group is brought to the farm as well. The search for Sophia continues and for the better half of the first season this is the focal point. It's what happens to the group during this search and after that brings forth the drama in the series.
The group changes as the show progresses. Secrets between various members are brought to light. Control of the group becomes a catalyst that drives wedges between these people. And slowly we begin to see Shane lose his mind. It's a slow burn that we watch progress from episode to episode that culminates with one of the most stunning solutions every shot in a series. This, along with the search and discovery of Sophia, makes for some stirring moments.
That may be the plotline that the story follows this season but it's the interaction between characters that make this series tick. Forget the fact that zombies are all around, the interplay between these survivors is what brings the story to life. The zombies take far less screen time then one would expect with a title like this. A true gathering doesn't even occur until the last two episodes.
Instead we have the drama played out by the love triangle involved with Rick, Lori and Shane. We have the development and maturing of young Carl in a world where there is no room for childhood. There is the fatherly affection between the older Dale and the emotionally scarred Andrea who begins to change as well. And in the midst of it all is Hershel and his family, thinking that there is still hope for a world to return to the way it was, secluded from the horror that has spun out of control in the world.
There are dramas on TV right now that have nothing on this series. As I said, if you took away the zombies the drama would still be the centerpiece and hold your attention. I considered if it would work in another format, say alien invasion or perhaps a world war on U.S. soil ala RED DAWN. In each format I choose the stories hold up. Zombies just add a touch of uneasiness to the mix.
The acting on view here is tremendous. There are no stand outs as every person involved brings their A game to the screen. From children to wizened aging actors, each does a fantastic job of bringing their character to life. There isn't a sympathetic character on view here, from the supposed bad guys to the amazingly good guys. And there are two things to know about every character here. One, they can change in the flick of an eye from good to bad and two, not everyone is going to make it. During one of the special extras sequences the statement is made that everyone comes to work wondering if their character will remain or not.
Words can not describe how amazing this series is. There were moments during season two where my jaw literally dropped and I had to pause the disc to absorb what just transpired. This is not just a DVD that you will want to rent; it is one worth having on the shelf. The only bad thing is having to wait until October for season three to begin.
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Some very exciting medals are going to be won today, including the women's 200m butterfly and the men's 100m freestyle. But we're unlikely to see the rush of record-breaking performances we saw in Beijing in 2008 — that's because in 2008 many swimmers benefited from controversial performance swim suits, which have now been banned. But how did these suits improve performance?
We're getting very excited about the medals that will be awarded in canoeing and kayaking over the next three days. But here's a question: does having lots of paddlers helps or slow the boat down? The kayak with two paddlers has twice as many "engines" to power it, but it also has twice as much weight to drag through the water. Which is the dominant factor?
The first Olympic weekend is over! Of course it's the taking part, not the winning, that counts, but let's face it: it's the medals, especially the gold ones, we all get most excited about. So while we were sitting glued to the telly watching the joys of weightlifting, archery and judo we started pondering some serious questions....
The eyes of the world will be on London tonight as the opening ceremony will mark the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ceremony will feature the largest harmonically tuned bell in Europe, there'll be NHS dancers, the Queen will be there too of course, and the grand finale will be the Olympic torch lighting the cauldron. While London has been gearing up for these momentous events, we here at Plus have been busy too.
Yesterday we brought you two Olympic brainteasers and here are another two. Enjoy!
While the athletes are flexing their muscles, why not train your brain with these two Olympic puzzles?
Will Britain be able to turn the home advantage into the top spot on the medal table this Games? Predicting medal counts is a tricky business, but, never afraid of a challenge, we will reveal our own predictions for the top 20 countries here on Plus on Friday. In the meantime, why not come up with your own mathematical method for predicting the results? To help you along, here are two articles we produced for the 2008 Games in Beijing:
What can you do to out sprint Usain Bolt to the taxi rank? Was he unlucky to lose at the Jamaican trials or is Yohan Blake really faster? Get in training for a summer of sport with a talk from John D. Barrow at the Science Museum tomorrow, 25th July. The talk is part of an evening dedicated to science and sport, part of the Science Museum Lates series.


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Office of Community Life
Enhancing student involvement. That's what the Office of Community Life is about.
We do this through programs, student organizations, leadership opportunities and experiences for students that allow them to apply what they learn in the classroom—whether as an on-campus, online or commuter student.
Key functions of this office include:
- Developing a vibrant community life among university students
- Enriching student learning
- Promoting character development
The Department Mission is: to assist Regent students to mature as Christians and to enhance the growth of student character, spirituality, personal well-being and leadership skills, while also assisting them to become Christian Leaders to Change the World.
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Rugby is a time of game often played with an oval that can be carried, kicked and then passed from one hand to another.
The game points are scored through grounding the ball behind the goal line of the opponent or through kicking the ball between two posts over the opponent's goal crossbar.
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Two teams are playing this game and each team is composed of 15 players. Every team can carry, kick or pass the ball to end zone to score as many points as possible.
The team that scored higher points will be declared as the winner of the competing match.
Two types of rugby are widely known, and these are Rugby League and Rugby Union.
Amateur men in England originally played the Rugby Union while the Rugby League is played for pay by working-class men.
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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Maj. Christopher Gering worries like any other parent whose child deploys downrange. It can be gut wrenching knowing his child operates outside the wire, working to clear and dispose of improvised explosive devices.
Since August, this proud parent has had an advantage most parents are not afforded when their child is deployed and in harm's way. He provides a birds-eye view while maintaining a watchful eye over the surroundings of his son's unit and assists them with accomplishing their mission safely.
As a mission crew commander for the 71st Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, Gering provides battle management and command and control over the skies in Afghanistan and air defense of the Arabian Gulf.
The squadron provides the Combined Air and Space Operations Center with a real-time view of the air picture, handing commanders valuable information on the ground while also supporting the fighters in the field by coordinating close air support for troops in contact, and aircraft deconfliction for forces in Afghanistan.
"My crew provides constant air support and surveillance to the region of Afghanistan where my son is currently deployed," Gering said, deployed from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. "We also make sure the right aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles are in the right airspace at the right time based on mission needs. Sometimes our priority is to provide intelligence for what's going on, and other times the priority is to make sure close air support attack aircraft can reach ground targets to protect our troops under attack."
Gering's son, Army Pfc. Marshal Gering, is assigned to the 584th Mobility Augmentation Company, 223rd Engineer Battalion assigned to Forward Operating Base Walton in Eastern Afghanistan.
His unit's main mission is to conduct route clearance in and around the Kandahar Province and Panjwey District, which provides freedom of movement to coalition forces and Afghan civilians.
"It seems crazy to think of him being here in the (area of responsibility) too, looking at real time video feed and listening to all the traffic we put out on the net," The younger Gering said, deployed from Ft. Hood, Texas. "Even though (my father) is just doing his job, it is almost as if he is watching over me and keeping a protective eye out for me, like he has always done. It almost seems funny to think we are closer here than compared to the rest of our family, yet we won't even see each other again until we are reunited with family back home."
Pfc. Gering deployed to Afghanistan in February of this year, just a few months after graduating Army Basic Training and not even a year after graduating high school.
"I'm incredibly proud of the amazing work he and his unit are accomplishing over there," said Maj. Gering. "It's a reassuring feeling, as a father, to know that when my crew is coordinating effective air support at a moment's notice, it might be my own son we're saving."


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Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and it's time to start thinking about gifts. Stumped again?
Whether you're shopping for a family member, a lover, a crush or a friend, young or old, man or woman, it's hard to go wrong with food. You can give it to another person to enjoy, or buy it to enjoy it together. And it always fits.
"Candy is universally appreciated," said Lora Wiley, owner of Au Marché, 931 Massachusetts St. "It doesn't matter how old the recipient is, they're going to love candy."
Savory can be just right for this holiday, too, but either way, the key is to find something that's a little bit special, Wiley said (case in point — the black truffle salami she sells at her store, featured below).
For our Valentine's Day gift guide, we're highlighting some of our favorite food finds from Massachusetts Street shops.
Bon appétit — to you and your Valentine.
If anyone knows how to do a romantic meal or late-night snack for two, it's the Europeans. Take home a combination of Black Truffle Salami made by Angel's Salumi and Truffles ($18), Tradition d'Alps Fondue Cheese ($11.69 per box) and Maille Cornichons ($7.25 per jar), all sold at Au Marché. Truffles have long been known as an aphrodisiac, and black truffles are said to have the most concentrated powers of all. The Tradition d'Alps fondue cheese can be melted on the stove or in the microwave if you don't have a fondue pot, and cornichons — tiny French gherkins — are a traditional accompaniment.
If you're looking for a spicier experience, try traditional Spanish-style Palacios Chorizo Picante ($8.60) with a wedge of Cervasi Aged Gouda cheese ($2.25). With either combination, make a pit stop at Wheatfields Bakery, just off Massachusetts Street at 904 Vermont St., to pick up a French baguette.
If words like "sharp" and "sour" are all that come to mind when you think of vinegar, it's time you paid a visit to Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting Shop, 937 Massachusetts St. Among their most sumptuous, Valentine-perfect offerings is the Aged Black Cherry Balsamic Vinegar Condimento ($11.95 for a 200 ml bottle). The deep, dark, fruity and decadent concoction could top anything from ice cream or flourless chocolate cake to a salad of baby greens with blue cheese.
Other especially indulgent infused balsamic vinegar flavors include Dark Chocolate and Tahitian Vanilla — both of which would meet their match in Extra Virgin's Blood Orange Olive Oil ($12.95 for 200 ml).
So your loved one's first love (after you, of course) is the Kansas University Jayhawks? Head for Kansas Sampler, 921 Massachusetts St. Their KU Blue Hot Chocolate ($18 for a tin) is warm, rich and turns blue when you add hot water.
Other tasty, Kansas-proud offerings include Rock Chalk Jayhawk crimson and blue gumballs ($9.95 for a box), Kansas Cow Chips made of milk chocolate with almonds ($3.95 each), barbecue sauce ($19.95 for a trio of Jack Stack Barbecue sauces) or, for home cooks, "The Kansas Cookbook: Recipes from the Heartland," published by University Press of Kansas ($17.95). What better to cap a Valentine's Day meal than homemade Swedish cheesecake with lingonberry sauce?
Mass. Street Sweet Shoppe, 727 Massachusetts St., does sell popcorn, but they specialize in all things sweet. Fancy truffles ($2.95 apiece) are one of their most show-stopping Valentine's treats. They come in assorted flavors and designs, and Sweet offers boxes for single truffles or combinations of four, six or — if you're in the doghouse, or just looking to make a bold statement — a dozen.
Other sure-to-please-a-sweet-tooth gifts include bulk candy ($9.99 per pound — try a mixed bag of red or pink rock candy or jelly beans) and chocolate-covered Oreos ($7 per box of three), which are iced with "Hug me," "Kiss me" and "Be mine" in red or pink and wrapped with a matching silk ribbon. The Sweet Shoppe also is taking pre-orders for chocolate-covered strawberries.
For DIY types planning to bake your own cupcakes for your valentine, Sweet! Baking and Candy Making Supply, 717 Massachusetts St., has everything you need to make them pretty. These festive sprinkles ($2.50 per bottle) come in red lips, colored hearts, shimmery silver or pink candy chunks and more.
Sweet! also sells colorful cupcake papers in regular or mini-size ($2 per pack), heart-shaped plastic ring cupcake toppers ($1.80 per bag) and single-cupcake gift boxes with a red-and-white chevron design ($2.99 per pack). Bonus: If you need a tried-and-true recipe for buttercream frosting, Sweet! shares theirs online at sweetbakingsupply.com.
For your kids — or the kid in you — what could be more fun than bright pink milk for Valentine's Day? In February, find Iwig Family Dairy's strawberry milk ($4.19 for a half-gallon, plus $2.25 refundable glass bottle deposit) at the Iwig Dairy Local Foods Market, 1901 Massachusetts St.
If flavored (or pink) milk isn't your thing, Iwig's fresh, local, hormone- and antibiotic-free milk also comes in plain old white, a no-fail choice to accompany all those Valentine's Day sweets.
— Features reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187. Follow her at Twitter.com/KCSSara.
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As part of the Personal Genome Project (PGP), my genome was recently sequenced by Complete Genomics. My PGP profile, including the sequence, is here, and their report on my genome is here. As I play around with the best ways to analyze these data, I'll write additional posts, but for now I've noticed only one thing: I'm almost surprised by how unsurprising my full genome sequence is.
According the the PGP's genome annotator, I have two variants of "high" clinical relevance. The first is the APOE4 allele, which Luke had already reported that I carry. The second is a variant that causes alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, which is also typed by 23andMe.
Of course, this is all quite reassuring. Long-time readers will remember that last year I was briefly worried that I might have Brugada syndrome. I do not carry any of the known pathogenic mutations (modulo worries about false negatives); this of course is now unsurprising, but would have been really nice information to have, say, when I was talking with a cardiologist last year.


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Anglican Mainstream has emailed me an inspiring sermon on marriage, written by the late Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1943. Bonhoeffer, for those readers who have not heard of him, was a German Lutheran theologian and member of the Confessing Church in Germany (to be distinguished from the "official" Lutheran Church) during the twelve years of Nazi rule. Implicated in the July Plot against Hitler, Bonhoeffer was hanged (naked and with thin wire) at Flossenburg prison in April 1945, just over two weeks before Germany surrendered.
The sermon was written from his prison cell for his niece. He writes, "God is guiding your marriage. Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through which He wills to perpetuate the human race till the end of time. In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations… Marriage is more than something personal; it is a status, an office." He goes on to state that God gives the married couple "the promise of children" and that "God allows man to share in His continual work of creation; but it is always God Himself who blesses marriage with children. Children are a heritage of the Lord and they should be acknowledged as such. It is from God that parents receive their children and it is to God that they should lead them."
I quote these extracts from this well-known Christian pastor's sermon simply because he takes it for granted that marriage is always between a man and a woman and that children are a blessing that come from it. We who, whether Christian or not, want to to retain this traditional understanding of marriage in the face of current plans to redefine it, need to show where we stand by signing up to the Coalition for Marriage and replying to the Government's own on-line consultation document.
As I write, news has come in that the Law Society has cancelled a forthcoming colloquium organised by Christian Concern, part of the World Congress of Families, on the subject, "One Man, One Woman. Making the case for marriage for the good of society" and due to take place at the Law Society's headquarters in Chancery Lane later this month.
Sir Paul Coleridge, a High Court judge in the Family Division, who has recently co-founded a new "Marriage Foundation" to champion the institution of marriage, was to have been one of the contributors to the conference. Other speakers lined up were Peter Duckworth, barrister, divorce specialist and member of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship; Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of The Bow Group, the Conservative think-tank; Phillip Blond, director of ResPublica; and Cristina Odone, Telegraph and Herald journalist.
Why the sudden cancellation of the booking? The reason the Law Society gives – wait for it – is that the conference is "contrary to diversity policy, espousing as it does an ethos which is opposed to same-sex marriage." Desmond Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society, stated, "We are proud of our role in promoting diversity in the solicitors' profession and felt that the content of this conference sat uncomfortably with our stance." Ah: so it's our old friend "diversity policy" again.
I should point out here that we are not talking about stopping a member of the BNP from standing up at Speaker's Corner and making a racist speech; this is about banning distinguished members of the legal and political establishment from having a civilised debate on Law Society premises on a critical matter – which is not (yet) law.
According to Hudson, the Law Society has "assisted the organisers in identifying an alternative non-Law Society venue." However, Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, contradicted him. She said, "We're not looking at another venue. I've not spoken to them about another venue. We're asking the Law Society to honour its contract with us. I was called to the Bar in 1988 and am proud of our country's long and great legal history, leading the world in promoting and protecting freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. I will not be hounded out of a legal institution for holding a debate on marriage."
She added, "Since when can debate be against diversity? …This action by the professional body…demonstrates how discussion on traditional views on marriage is being shut down before any change in the law to redefine marriage has come into force." She pointed out that the Law Society had adopted a pro-same-sex marriage policy ahead of the outcome of the Government's Consultation and without consulting its members. Bow Group Chairman, Ben Harris-Quinney, agreed that in the light of the Government Consultation it was essential "for parties to come together to debate the issue in forum." He called the Law Society's decision "exceptionable".
Those who would like to support Andrea Williams and Christian Concern over this extraordinary decision can contact her on 020 7935 1488 or write to: The Christian Legal Centre, 70, Wimpole St, London WIG 8AX.
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DATE IP H BB K BF PIT P/INN(WPA: Win Probability Added and aLI: Average Leverage Index)
0706 37.2 28 7 48 148 576 15.3
0708 38.0 34 18 40 167 688 18.1
AVG OBP SLG OPS WPA aLI
2008 .203 .241 .312 .553 0.51 1.60
2009 .234 .325 .352 .677 2.58 2.15
Papelbon is pitching in (on average) more high-pressure situations than he was through his first 38 games last year -- and, therefore, has had a greater contribution to Red Sox victories.
While his strikeout rate has remained the same (down from 10.0 to 9.5), his hit rate is up slightly (8.1 from 7.5) and his walk rate has skyrocketed (from 1.0 to 4.3).
Papelbon has altered his motion this year to use his legs more and put less of a strain on his shoulder. On June 26, he said his arm is "feeling better than any year I've had" -- and that was due to the way Francona was using him.
Through 38 appearances in 2008, Papelbon had six games of more than one inning. However, three of those came in the first 12 games of the season -- on six, three and one days rest. (The other three were all on one day of rest).
Thus far in 2009, he has made only two appearances of more than one inning: April 11 on three days rest and May 4 on four days rest.
Francona suggested that perhaps expecting Papelbon to duplicate his 2008 performance is too much to expect:
There's been a few more walks than we've seen in the past, but I think it's more realistic, almost, what he's doing this year. What did he have last year - four walks, for a while? That's unheard of. ... There have been some instances where he's pitched himself into binds, but then he still has the ability to reach back.Bot:
I don't think I have to hit a panic button [regarding the increased number of pitches], but it concerns me to the point where I have to pay more attention to my delivery. ... I look at it as: Did I get the job done or not. That's basically what it all boils down to for me. To me, the efficiency, the pitches per inning, kind of takes a back seat to: Did I get the job done?It seems logical for the team to sacrifice some day-to-day excellence in the hopes of protecting Papelbon's arm/shoulder for the long-term, but if the drop in effectiveness means he has to throw more pitches to more batters, are those long-term benefits being undercut?
John Smoltz:
I love when people - and I've already heard some of it - say, "Ummmmm, I don't know. I don't think he can do it" ... I'm amused by it, because it happens all the time. I can tell you thousands of cases where I've started off a little slow and people have said, "He's getting older," and at the end of the year they're saying, "Well, he did it again." This is no different.Naturally, there will come a time when an athlete cannot keep doing it again, but I don't think we have any idea right now if Smoltz is at that point.
If you're going to be a major league pitcher, you have to have a little bit of that chip on your shoulder. At the same time, there are about 10 variables that are brand new to me, including the catcher and including the league. It's going to take some time. ... This may not make sense now, but I can see down the road, if the opportunity for some pretty big games exists, what I'm going to be able to do.
Smoltz says he has been working on a new changeup:
The game's going to dictate when I use it. And I haven't had the feel I want with it yet. But it will happen. It's my fifth pitch, and I'm certainly not going to use my fifth pitch in too many situations. The bullpen is a nice place to work on stuff, but when you take it out to the mound in a game, that's something entirely different.Mike Lowell's workout on Thursday included "soft tossing, tee work and taking ground balls at third". He will work out today and Saturday and the team will re-evaluate him on Sunday. He hopes to be activated a week from today.
I'm really happy. The [medical staff] told me they'd be shocked if I didn't feel like everything was in sync by the end of the week. ... They assured me it was going to get better each day, and it has.A Twitter post from Peter Gammons indicated that Dustin Pedroia may miss the All-Star Game to be with his wife in the hospital. Francona: "I'm not sure how to answer that. I guess there's always a chance that he couldn't play because you don't know what's going to happen. But the plan is for him to play."
Julio Lugo was back with the club last night after missing one game because of what Terry Francona called a "pretty serious family issue". ... Rocco Baldelli has been working out at first base, though he has never played the position in a major league game. ... Daniel Bard's last four outings: 5.1 innings, 0 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, 10 strikeouts.


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Samsung has upgraded its Story Station series of external desktop hard drives with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity.
The Story Station 3.0 - you can review Reg Hardware's review of the USB 2.0 version here - comes in 1TB and 2TB versions and will go on sale late this month and early May.
USB 3.0 offers ten times the bandwidth of USB 2.0, making for a significant speed boost for transferring big files.
Samsung didn't say how much the new drives will cost. ®
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Participants will be provided with an Effective Personal Management workbook, as well a practical planning & organisational system that will enable you to put what you have learnt into practice from day 1…and on a continual basis.
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The easiest and most breathtaking way to explore the Palatinate wine region is along the German Wine Route. Geared towards visitors, the scenic route links numerous towns and villages associated with wine between Bockenheim in the north and Schweigen on the French border. It is the oldest route of its kind in the world, and cycle and walking trail versions of the German Wine Route allow you to explore the vineyards between the Palatinate Forest and the Rhine on foot or by bike.
Half of the Palatinate vineyards come under the Mittelhaardt German Wine Route, half find themselves in Southern Wine Route territory. The region as a whole ranks alongside the Moselle as the largest producer of riesling in the world with more than 5,000 hectares devoted to the grape. Pinots are especially prominent at the Southern Wine Route vineyards. White wines specialities include gewürztraminer and scheurebe. Around 40 per cent of the Palatinate vineyards are planted with red wine grapes, mainly dornfelder, portugieser, pinot noir and regent. As such, the Palatinate is the largest red wine region in Germany.
The rich variety of soils found in Palatinate vineyards provide the right conditions for a wide range of grapes. Around half of the terrain has Bunter sandstone as its key constituent, with high proportions of stone on the edge of the Haardt hills and sand in the somewhat lower lying terraces: conditions that make for wines with a light and elegant character. Vineyards underlaid with loess soil produce wines for everyday drinking, such as müller-thurgau and dornfelder. Those with weathered chalk soil, meanwhile, are better suited to growing full-bodied reds of the pinot variety. Rarer wines are produced from vines grown in the slate soil near Burrweiler, on the basalt rock outside Forst and on the Rotliegend sandstone by Birkweiler.
The fact that the wine festival season begins so early in the Palatinate – with the almond blossom festival in March – speaks volumes for the mild climate. But it's not just pinot noir, rieslings, figs and chestnuts that flourish here. The conditions are also right for wine grapes originally from the Mediterranean, from cabernet sauvignon and merlot to tempranillo and syrah. Only extremely rarely are harvests ruined by the frost of a harsh winter or the heat and aridity of an exceptional summer. Mother Nature has blessed the Palatinate with a generous 2,000 hours of sunshine a year and an Indian summer. Average rainfall per square metre also amounts to only 500 litres.
Tucked away between the Palatinate vineyards are more than 140 towns and villages, including the two largest wine centres in Germany, Landau and Neustadt. No fewer than 3,000 families carry out the laborious work on the vine-covered slopes, either as their main job or on a part-time basis. Many of them deliver their harvest to the nearest wine cooperative, of which the Palatinate has around two dozen. A winery might also take collection of the grapes. Half of the family-run vineyards in the Palatinate, most of which have more than ten hectares under vine, produce their own wines and sell them directly. But wherever you go, you can always find somewhere to stop off for a wine tasting.
People in the Palatinate really enjoy living out in the country or in small towns. They value the familiarity of the village communities. Everyone knows everyone else and they love to celebrate together. No town or village worth its salt gets by without a wine festival – up to 200 offer a friendly wine-themed experience. In time-honoured fashion, you sit down at long tables with the locals and drink riesling from oversized glasses.
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Steve here.
1) Constructors' note:
"Go with the flow" is the motto for many of my generation, who grew up during the chaotic Cultural Revolution and were confused by (and then benefited from) China's "Open Door" policy. Don and I initially had FIRST BLOOD as a partner for JOHNNY CASH. Rich felt the blood meaning is too literal. So we re-worked our theme entries.
2) Happy 98th Birthday to LA Times' oldest constructor Bernice Gordon. Thanks Argyle for getting the exact date.


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Snow Leopard's QuickTime may pack Pro features at no cost
That's just one of several Snow Leopard-related tidbits to crop up in recent weeks after the Cupertino-based Mac maker equipped its developer community with the first pre-release builds of the next-generation OS since early December.
Removal of Pro licensing
Apple has distributed the QuickTime multimedia framework with a limited version of QuickTime Player for so long that the original reason for adding the optional Pro version has almost been lost to history. QuickTime Pro unlocks advanced recording, sharing, saving and exporting functions after users buy a Pro license key, which the company sells for $29.95 and also bundles with some of its Pro software titles.
The QuickTime Pro licensing system appears due to change. A person familiar with the latest distributions of Snow Leopard told MacRumors earlier this week that the software arrived with a version of Player that unlocks all QuickTime Pro's existing features by default.
A few years ago Apple began highlighting Pro features as grayed-out menu items in the Player software to entice users to upgrade. Those options would become immediately available once the user registered QuickTime by entering a Pro license into the QuickTime preference pane.
Though the accessibility of Pro features in the Snow Leopard builds could simply be a measured aimed at affording developers access to test the new version of QuickTime broadly, it was also reported that QuickTime system preference panel has been updated to completely omit the registration pane — a sign that the change may be permanent.
In recent years, Apple has loosened its grip on some legacy QuickTime Pro features while debuting others. In early 2007, the company added a new feature to the paid software that allowed users to export video on their computers in a format suitable for its then fledgling Apple TV media hub. A few months later it unlocked full-screen playback, a feature once exclusive to the Pro software.
QuickTime Player 7.5 basic (left) compared to an unlocked Pro version (right).
Apple is shedding its need to directly monetize QuickTime as it builds products and software that earn revenue for the company using QuickTime as a catalyst technology. Back when Apple was only selling Macintosh computers and spending a lot of money developing software to differentiate its systems from generic PCs, the need to find a way to directly earn revenue from its system software was more critical.
Many attempts to monetize QuickTime
Shortly after the initial development of QuickTime 1.0 in 1991, Apple attempted to bring in money to cover its development by packaging the technology into a $149 Pro version of its Mac System 7 operating system software in 1993. That plan failed miserably, not just because Mac users of the day were accustomed to getting System Software updates from Apple for free, but also because QuickTime and the equally new AppleScript were bundled with the bloated, complex, and system taxing PowerTalk, a collaboration software framework built upon AppleTalk.
QuickTime 2.0, released in 1994, was the only version to be released as a paid-only upgrade. It was also the first version offered for Windows. By version 2.1, Apple was back to offering QuickTime for free, largely to spur rapid cross platform adoption as it fought with Microsoft to deliver the best video playback platform.
QuickTime languished within the struggling Apple during its dark period of the mid-90s. Apple had brought a suit against Microsoft related to code theft that had used the San Francisco Canyon Company to take Apple's technology and install it as part of Microsoft's Video for Windows.
Meanwhile, Microsoft met with Apple's new executives from NeXT and threatened in 1997 to destroy Apple's entire creative multimedia business if it didn't agree to "knife the baby" and drop video playback on the Windows platform, according to testimony given during in the Microsoft monopoly trial.
Steve Jobs brokered a deal with Microsoft that dropped the QuickTime code theft case in exchange for a visible partnership that made Microsoft an investor in Apple and ensured regular new releases of Office for Mac.
Apple also released QuickTime 3.0 in 1998 with a new business model: the software itself would be free, but a special Pro version could be unlocked for $30. The Pro version only enabled certain features of the MoviePlayer application, not the core software itself, making the restriction easy to bypass.
As QuickTime 4, 5 and 6 were released in rapid succession in 1999, 2001, and 2002, the business model behind QuickTime changed from one where Apple was trying to sell foundational operating system technology to consumers to one where the company began using QuickTime itself to develop and support real applications. For example, iTunes relies upon QuickTime for all its underlying media handling needs. Apple's Pro Apps, particularly Final Cut, and its iLife consumer suite are also built on QuickTime.
In 2005, Apple released QuickTime 7, an entirely new architecture that focused the company on MPEG-4 H.264 as a video codec, making it simpler to manage video across devices from iPods to desktops and future devices such as Apple TV and the iPhone. With QuickTime now embedded throughout Apple's products, the demand for earning money from the core software itself is no longer there, enabling the company to enhance users' experience by dropping the legacy Pro licensing fee.
Apple's inability to successfully license QuickTime as a raw software technology to the broad consumer market helps to explain why the company also makes no effort to sell Mac OS X to other hardware makers or as a retail product, and instead bundles its software with hardware sales.


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Ifs, Buts and Political Peanuts: Why Salted Legumes Cost More in Canberra
The last time I went to a circus, I was in Brisbane and paid about $75 for my ticket.
My most recent visit to a zoo was while visiting Perth and, from memory, the privilege cost me somewhere in the vicinity of $20.
Why does it cost so much more to watch dancing bears, juggling clowns and those dopey-looking penguins when the show's in Canberra?
When you consider what we pay our Federal politicians to carry on like petulant children, it's easy to see why so many people become disillusioned and why our elected officials rate somewhere between journalists, used car salespeople and serial killers on the scale of professional trust.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard hasn't been able to use any words other than sexist, misogynist and offended this week.
For that, Australians paid almost half a million dollars.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott achieved the seemingly impossible and sunk lower than broadcaster Alan Jones when he slipped the old "died of shame" nugget into a speech during question time.
That will be about $350,000, thank you very much.
You have to feel sorry for Peter Slipper, the disgraced former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
When Mr Slipper fell on his controversy-plagued sword on Tuesday night, he took a pay cut of more than $140,000.
Hopefully, he won't struggle too much on his adjusted annual salary of a touch under $200,000.
Am I the only one who feels like we are currently getting short-changed on the Federal political front?
We need the best people representing us – being our voice – in Federal Parliament and I am all for paying top dollar to attract them, especially when you take into account the salaries individuals of that calibre would command in the private sector.
What we are presently seeing and reading about day after day in Canberra suggests that, in many instances, we have fallen well short in identifying the best candidates when we went to the polls in 2010.
There's an old idiom that suggests if you pay peanuts, you will find yourself surrounded by monkeys.
Unfortunately, the peanuts the Australian public are feeding the current residents of Parliament Zoo cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per bag.
Worse still, once you have purchased a bag of the exorbitantly-priced legumes and realise it was too much to spend on the political animals performing behind the smudged glass, you can't get a refund for three years.
If our Federal politicians continue to carry on like angry five-year-old chimpanzees, I for one will be advocating covering our nation's capital in Nobby's nuts.


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Press Release (PRWeb): DOVE scenar opens The Huntsman World Senior Games 2012
Ultra Marathoner Carries Russian Healing Device As He Lights The Cauldron At The Huntsman World Senior Games
The DOVE scenar, a new breakthrough in athletic performance enhancement and injury rehabilitation, accompanies ultra-distance runner Stan Cottrell as he carries the torch at the Opening Ceremony of The Huntsman World Senior Games 2012.
St. George, Utah (PRWEB) October 12, 2012
Florida Local SEO and Health Boss announce that The Huntsman World Senior Games, the world's largest annual multi-sport event for athletes 50 and over, had a small but powerful new friend at its Opening Ceremonies in St. George, Utah on October 9th.
Following Olympic tradition, a Parade of Athletes, singing, dancing and fireworks were punctuated by the Cauldron Lighting by super-ultra-runner, Stan Cottrell, who had with him the friend as he kicked off two weeks of athletic events.
This new international friend? It's the DOVE scenar, a revolutionary, cell phone size device out of Russia that helps the body heal athletic injuries and boost athletic performance. Tested by Russians and others in international competition, it's a fitting, natural adjunct to any sports endeavor. Cottrell calls the DOVE his "devoted health assistant" as he continues to run remarkable distances for a 69-year-old.
The Games welcome to St. George approximately 10,000 senior athletes of all skill levels, coming from 25 countries to compete in 27 different sports. This includes sports heroes, former record holders, who like Cottrell are no strangers to athletic injuries. He has experienced everything from severe blood blisters and muscle strains to broken vertebrae on his 2100-mile China Run during the course of his career's 200,000 miles of runs.
Cottrell beat the former Trans-USA Guinness Record by 5 hours in 1980. But he is best known internationally for his decades of ultra-distance "Friendship Runs" through 38 countries promoting people-to-people efforts to bring nations and peoples together. He calls it "breaking down the walls that divide one human heart from another."
Now he is getting ready for his lifetime dream project – The Great Global Friendship Run with ultra marathons plus business, cultural, sports and children's events in all countries of the world, spreading cross-cultural friendship and raising funds for orphans.
The Senior Games, with their emphasis on spreading international friendship through athletic events, provide the perfect arena for the USA "start" for this ambitious 5-6 year project.
The Games offer free admission in St. George, so it's available to all. In that same spirit, the approachable Kentucky native, Stan Cottrell, will be available at the venue throughout the Games to answer questions, sign autographs, and freely share his conditioning, endurance and vitality "secrets" with anyone who asks.
What are they? The proprietary training method he calls "EFED" (Even Flow of Energy Distribution), powerful nutritional and dietary products to fuel his body over long distances, and the breakthrough energy technology incorporated in his DOVE scenar.
The scenar technology was invented for the Russian space program but is now available to all. Cottrell's friend, Irina Kossovskaia, M.D., Ph.D., D.N.M., served on the research team and continues to be intimately involved. She joins some other medical professionals in hoping scenar will enable people to overcome many ailments without the need for a physician.
"Anyone can be trained to use this non-invasive biofeedback tool that fine-tunes your body's ability to heal itself," said Dr. Irina Kossovskaia, founder of HealthBoss. "I have often recommended the DOVE scenar for self-treatment, as it treats pain and illness quickly and efficiently. It is invaluable for athletes, as it speeds up the healing process 2-3 times, returning the body to the condition it had pre-injury, and it is safe and convenient to use."
Learn more at DOVEscenar.com or address your questions about the DOVE and its applications to Dr. Irina via e-mail: [email protected]. To learn more about The Huntsman World Senior Games, visit http://www.SeniorGames.net. For more about the orphans outreach, contact [email protected] . Like Stan Cottrell, these are winners all.
P.S. from HealthBoss. Stan Cottrell is one of our HealthBoss University Practical Professors, who delivered two very dynamic programs at HealthBoss University LIVE 6-12 event in Niagara Falls in June 2012. CLICK HERE to learn more about his programs.
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LOS ANGELES, May 3 (UPI) -- Actress Hilary Duff said that despite her separation from husband Mike Comrie, the two still love each other.
The pair, who split in January, have been spotted out in public together lately.
Duff told E! it's because she and the former hockey player are still good friends and still love each other.
"We're constantly seen together and people are like, 'What are they doing? Are they back together? Are they not?' We're really good friends and we have so much respect for each other and obviously Luca is our No. 1 priority," she said, speaking of their 2-year-old son.
"I think we got to a point where we were like, we really need to honor happiness and whatever that is and however we need to sort that out or work that out, we're doing that. We love each other so much and we love spending time together. So when you see us out it's not just for Luca, it's because we make plans and we hang out and we don't know what our future looks like right now but we're both doing really good and just figuring out what makes us happy," she added.


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Now this is a very positive shift towards a more safe environment on Google and DropBox. Google and the file storing service DropBox have decided to provide more storage to users which use a strong password.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
O Louis....How I Love You
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Thank Him Later
Here is the cover art for Drake's highly anticipated freshman album, Thank Me Later. His first single, Over is already a smash and his second single, Find Your Love, produced by Kanye West is sure to be another hit. Drake's Thank Me Later will be dropping June 15th.
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Dec. 19, 2013
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Butch Jones met with the media on Thursday. He touched on many topics including the Vols' success in the classroom, new additions to the roster and off-season workouts.
(Opening Statement)
"First of all happy holidays; it's good to see everyone. I'd like to take this opportunity one more time to give some thanks, and that starts with our senior class. For everything they've meant to our program and really building the foundation and expectations within our football family and everything that they've been through throughout their careers here at Tennessee. But also to congratulate the 10 individuals who graduated last Friday. That was obviously a great day for me and I know they're going to be extremely, extremely successful in their future endeavors. They will always be Vols For Life. I'm very proud of that set of individuals.
"While we talk about graduation I think it's very fitting we start with the topic of academics. We just concluded a very, very productive semester academically. We had the second highest fall GPA in the history of our football program. We had 40 individuals earned a 3.0 or above and we had no individuals who are academically ineligible who didn't pass the required nine hours.
"It is all about the foundation of excellence and the standard within your football program. A lot of thanks go to Dr. Joe Scogin and the entire Thornton (Center) staff. They are a part of our football family and that standard of excellence we have throughout the entire athletic program. Joe and the Thornton staff are instrumental in that. So I want to say thank you to them.
"It is also very appropriate at this time to thank the best fan base in America. While other institutions are having attendance problems, we actually went up significantly in fan attendance this year. That is a testament that there is only One Tennessee and the passionate fan base we have. Our overall attendance was up about 6,000 per game, which is incredible. I'd really like to thank our student body. I'm really proud of this - we were up over 31 percent in student body attendance. That means the world to me because everything is about our fans and student body. So I want to say thank you.
"I would also be remised if I didn't bring up the greatest accomplishment in Tennessee football and that is the APR issue. I still don't think that gets the recognition that it deserves. It has really helped us in this recruiting class. It's a monumental feat, a tribute to everyone who helped us - our administration, Joe Scogin, the entire Thornton staff, our coaches, our players - to be able to put that piece of negative recruiting aside. I think you look at everything that's going on here is building a program of excellence. I said it last year, before you can win on the field you have to win off the field. We're starting to win off the field. We still have a long ways to go, but the APR issue and all the sacrifices and hard work that went into making that a reality was instrumental. It's critical as we continue to move this football program forward.
"I will have some time over the holidays and once the recruiting season wraps up, I will take time and evaluate anything and everything in our football program. Everything is under further evaluation as we continue to move forward. There are three criteria that our coaching staff will take time over the holidays and address. We're going to break everything down into three things: No. 1 is what do we need to change to improve and get better? The next thing is what do we need to adjust? How can we adjust and continue to build the best college football program in America? The third thing is what things do we need to emphasize? Those are the three ways we'll break things down. What we need to change? What we need to adjust and what we need to emphasize? Those will be critical as well all know in moving forward.
"Looking back on this year, I think we have taken some great strides, monumental strides. But we are nowhere near where we need to be. Losing is not an option. It will not be tolerated here at Tennessee. There are steps in the process. I've spoken about it the entire year - we have to focus on the process. We are still going through that process. There are no quick fixes. I think we all know that. We are going to do things right and great things will happen. I'm the worst one with having patients. It starts with your foundation of excellence, your standard of expectations, your culture and having the right people in the right place.
"When I look back at some of our deficiencies we have to improve to move this program forward - I think everyone sees it first and foremost is our overall team speed. We must improve our team speed across the board. That's offense, defense and special teams. We must be a much faster football team. We'll develop that in the offseason, but quite frankly you develop it through the recruiting process.
"The next thing is our overall strength as a football team. We're nowhere we need to be to compete at an elite level in terms of our strength. That is something that we addressed immediately - the Monday - after the Kentucky game. We started our offseason strength and conditioning program. There is no waiting around. Every single day is critical in the evolution of Team 118. We had a team meeting and started that program. We have split our team up into five different groups and they will compete with each other over the break. We tested everyone, their body fat makeup. The first thing they will do when they report back to campus is we will test them again. We will have a conditioning test and a strength test. We have assigned leaders to those five teams and they are responsible for holding their players accountable throughout the course of this long break. There are no off days in Tennessee football to get this program back to where we need it to be. We will continue to compete even during vacation.
"The next area is our overall depth and competitiveness across the board. Competitiveness lends itself to improving individually and collectively as a team. We need to generate and create competition across the board. You do that through the recruitment process. That's why we are excited to welcome 14 new individuals at mid-year and three Junior College signees that we welcomed to the family yesterday.
"The last thing is continuing - for everyone in our organization - to understand the standards and expectations of excellence that we've put forth for this great football program. And not deviating from that. Our players have done a great job. We talk about having a relentless approach to everything that we do. Whether it's in recruiting, whether it's in our community, the classroom, or whether it's this offseason strength and conditioning phase we're about to embark on. It is a relentless approach in everything that we do regarding Tennessee football.
"The other thing I spoke about briefly is the three individuals we welcomed into our football family yesterday. They will be great additions. They have not played one snap of football for Tennessee, but the great thing is they will be here at mid-year. Von Pearson is an extremely competitive young man. He's the No. 2 wide receiver in the country and was very highly-touted and sought after in the recruiting process. I thought Zach Azzanni did a tremendous job of building a relationship with him and formulating that trust. He's going to add another dimension to our wide receiver position, which we greatly need.
"The next individual is Dontavius Blair - an offensive lineman, an offensive tackle we've been on for a while now. He's going to give us immediate relief and competition at the offensive tackle position. We're very excited about him.
"Owen Williams originally from Macon, Ga., he is very, very sudden, very, very quick, explosive and when you watch his film you see a high level of productivity on every single snap. We are excited about those three individuals."
"Before I take your questions you might have, it is also very appropriate to congratulate Peyton Manning. We are very proud of him for winning the prestigious Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award. That is a great, great, honor, feat and accomplishment and it couldn't have come to a more deserving individual and person than Peyton Manning. I love everything that he stands for, he is a Vol for Life and I am proud to call him a good friend as well."
(On the QB competition)
"All even starting from ground zero. Every position is all even starting at ground zero. You are responsible at creating your football identity. Because some individuals may have had success in the past, that doesn't guarantee them success in the future. You have to earn everything that you get, it is by a body of work over time and that position, just like every other position will be up for competition."
(On the health of QBs)
"Everyone will be healthy. We have had some individuals stay over and do the extra rehab. Justin Worley is one of those individuals and he is back to throwing a football now."
(On Riley Ferguson)
"Anytime you have that valuable of experience being in that system for a year now and being involved in a program for over a year. Some will be their first spring practice. It will be Riley's first spring practice, it will be Josh's first spring practice. Continuity and consistency is critical, so having those individuals in the system for a year will expedite the learning curve, they are able to focus more on the fundamentals and fine details that it takes to play winning football at the quarterback position."
(On making first to second year strides)
"When you take over a program, each situation is different. It is based on the existing talent in the program, experience you have, size of recruiting classes, there is so much that goes into it. Leadership characteristics of the players in your program, staff continuity and consistency, everything goes into developing the program. Going from year one to year two it is monumental. The players understand the standard and expectation. They understand that we are going to win in the classroom. They understand the demands of the program, how we start meetings, where they are going. The great thing is, you welcome 14 new individuals, but we have a collective group of returning individuals that can teach them the standards and expectations of Tennessee football. It is monumental. I know much more now today than I did a year ago and that will continue to develop. We still have a lot of work to do and it is not going to be 100 percent corrected overnight. It is going to be a process. I see the successful steps that are taken and a lot of positive things happening here. It will happen. You rejuvenate your program with this great signing class adding 14 individuals in January, it is going to add to the competitive make up of your football team. In all my years of coaching, and I think I speak from our entire coaching staff and not to take away from any of the other teams we have coached but this is the most excited and most looking forward to an off season that I can remember in a very, very long time."
(On the staff moving forward)
"I know for the staff it has not been easy because going to a bowl game is what is expected here and competing for championships. I want disappointment. I want them to realize that it is great to be home for the holidays but we want to go to bowl games. They understand that and that temperament was set immediately following the conclusion of the Kentucky game. It is a new start, a new beginning. Team 117 is come and gone. All of our focus is on Team 118 and everything that we can do in developing the leadership that it is going to take to compete at a high level. Creating leadership, creating depth but also creating a love, a respect for each other. That is the big thing, being great teammates and having that brotherhood and building that team chemistry. I do sense some hunger and sense them getting back and ready to go. I have had a number of players that have said `Coach, I have had a great time at home, I am ready to come back. Individuals are coming back a week, week and a half early just to get started."
(On what sets this offseason apart)
"I think having been in the system for a year, our players understand the expectations, standards, that are required of them. I think they understand volume, the work ethic it is going to take and challenging everyone on an individual basis to improve in all aspects. From the way that they take care of their bodies, nutrition, health, strength and conditioning,. But also adding 14 new individuals. Some very highly recruited individuals, some skilled individuals, it will add to the overall competition and as we know competition is extremely health. We are going to compete this offseason in everything that we do. We may even race to the drinking fountain. A competition of who can keep their locker the cleanest. Who can be the best leader. We are going to compete in everything that we do and try and create stressful situations because that is when you really find out about leadership. I am excited for the players that are returning. They have been through a full year, they have gained confidence in the way that we want to play and our style of play. They know what we did well and what they didn't do well. The overall mindset in the building, the overall expectation, the coaches, the administration is optimistic and very rightfully so."
(On bringing in 14 new players mid year)
"There are challenges with that to now, there are some things we have to understand. Some of these individuals are 17 years old and going away to college for the first time. Everything is changing for them. Their friends, the expectations, the work volume of being in a collegiate setting with academics with the offseason strength and conditioning. We are going to have to rely on our older players to nurture them so to speak and bring them along. All 14 individuals are high character, competitive and looking forward to it."
(On replacing the entire offensive line and the majority of the defensive line)
"A lot goes into that, it is a great challenge, I have never been in that type of situation. That is when we talk about building this football program. We are down an entire recruiting class in the offensive line position numbers wise. The thing that we have to guard against in this recruiting class is we cannot fix all of our deficiencies in a recruiting class. It takes time. You can only bring in so many players, I know that has been one of the most talked about topics of conversation in the last month or so. We have to make sure we correct and improve every single position to have long term success. You are not going to fix all of your deficiencies in one recruiting class. It is going to be a big challenge to replace the offensive line but I am also encouraged because Marcus Jackson gained his redshirt year, Mack Crowder gained some valuable game experience, Kyler Kerbyson gained some valuable experience. I am excited about three freshman offensive lineman that we brought in last year, and you couple that with Blair coming in and other individuals coming in. Change is good, there is going to be a high level of excitement and competitiveness. Playing in this conference having to replace as many offensive and defensive lineman that we have to it is an area of concern."
(On the younger defensive linemen stepping up this offseason)
"Huge, monumental. That is why we started our off on Monday after the Kentucky game. There could be no wasted days. Our players can't go home and not do anything for three weeks, they can't do that or else they have set back their development and our team development. That is why we are in constant communication with them and why we are competing even though we are away for the holidays."
(On coaches commenting on UT prospects)
"I don't ever comment on and other programs because I am busy concentrating on the University of Tennessee. But if they have time to worry about Tennessee and the numbers then we must be doing something right."
(On holding on to commitments)
"I have been recruiting day in and day out. There is the reason why we have the No. 2 recruiting class in the country. Rankings are rankings. We have great recruiters on this staff. It is recruiting. It is part of the process. That is why I don't talk about numbers. Because it is always influx. Recruiting changes minute by minute, hour by hour. It changes. That is the nature of recruiting. In this conference nothing is set until they sign. I understand that, it has always been that way, the way we recruit. I am excited the way things are going but nothing has caught my staff off guard, I am excited with the individuals that we have. But we don't ever take anything for granted. We are in a people relationships type of business and I think individuals see we have tremendous people here and a great product to see and really they want to be a part of it."
(On when support staff begins working with possible midterm enrollees)
"A lot of times it starts now because of the change in the academic requirements. It really starts changing in their ninth grade year and into their 10th grade year. They have to have a great plan just because of the ever-changing academic requirements and having a plan. There are a lot of individuals who have already approached us for the future of wanting to enroll early. It takes a different person, it takes a very mature person to be able to do that. Like I said, their whole life is changing, you have to have a maturity about yourself and also you have to have a program in place to help the individuals succeed once they get on your campus. That is the great thing about Joe Scogin and our Thornton Center and our coaches. We have the best support services in the country. That is what separates us, our academic support services and everything, the resources that we have for an individual to be successful at Tennessee."
(On the benefits of bring 14 mid-term enrollees in)
"Many benefits. They gain spring football, they actually gain a half of year of eligibility. When August rolls around they understand the standard, the expectations, the style of play - physically they are able to develop, mentally they are able to develop from a mental toughness standpoint but also understanding the playbook. The learning curve, it really helps the learning curve and all that you do mentally and physically, it builds team bonds and chemistry, it builds an overall comfort level. The advantages are endless, it is invaluable."
(On players not returning next semester)
"Sure, we have three individuals we have signed their releases, Paul Harris, Tino Thomas and Tom Smith. We have allowed them to explore further options. As of right now that is all that I anticipate but as we all know the world of college football is ever changing."
(On recruits and Twitter)
"It is a fine line. Each individual recruit is different. Some are on Twitter, some are on Facebook, some of them really look at it and some individuals, we are in the recruitment of a prospective student-athlete that doesn't have twitter. Every recruit is its own separate entity, it is their own different thing. So not one individual is the same, they are all different. Twitter has become a great forum and mechanism to promote your program, to sell your program, to sell your vision. But you do, it is a fine line, you have to also be careful."
(On meeting the team needs with the next class)
"I do. We won't know entirely until the February signing date. We are. I think we are taking a monumental step at the receiver position to playing football the way we want to play here. We have upgraded in every single position. We have to make sure that we guard against not placing too many expectations on this incoming class. They are still 17 and 18 year old young adults, very, very talented but very, very young. We will know more once signing day rolls around because we know it is always changing. We do. That is our job we have to try to address and continue to get better and better."
(On AJ Johnson and Curt Maggitt)
"AJ is still weighing his options. We have been in constant communication. So we don't have an answer for you there. Curt Maggitt, we are excited to get back and he will be 100% ready to go."
(On when he believes AJ Johnson will make a decision)
"I don't. It is our job to educate our players. That is part of the Vol for Life program, part of our NFL readiness program and educating him. We present the facts to them, what we are hearing around the league, where we think they are at, the pros of coming back, the cons. Give them as much advice as possible. At the end of the day it comes down to them making a decision. We do, we try to present the reasons why. We are building something special here, we try to present that to them and the they have to make that decision, what is best for them and their family."
(On the lack of depth)
"I don't think I have ever been part of a year where we were as youthful as we were. Youthful, playing in the best college football conference in the country and playing the number one schedule in the country. I think it is going to end up being a valuable experience, a valuable tool in moving this program forward. A lot of young individuals gained an inordinate amount of reps so I think that will helps us in moving forward. We have a recruiting profile. We don't listen to the recruiting services. We have a recruiting profile in terms of character traits but also competitive traits and then position specific traits as well. Every person we offer a scholarship to we have done our due diligence in research. A lot of times it is extremely challenging to do as much research as you can just because the recruiting process is as accelerated as it is.We have a profile and we rely on that profile and we have some very good evaluators. That is the thing that I think a lot of people don't understand, the role of coaches at the collegiate level is so different because you have to be able to teach, you have to be able to coach, you have to be able to critique, you have to be able to evaluate, and you have to be able to communicate and recruit. So you have to be able to recruit and sell your program, you have to be able to evaluate the personnel and then also coach. The great coaches are able to do all three things. That is how we evaluate our coaches, in those three areas. It is a great challenge, we are fortunate to have a great staff here. Bob Welton does a tremendous job of heading our entire recruiting efforts."
(On the 14 early enrollees)
"The number 14 is the scholarships that we had available at midyear that is why winning academically is a by product of that. Our philosophy is we are always going to get our players graduated, our goal is between 3.5 and 4 years. That is the goal here. So if they have a fifth year of eligibility and do elect to come back they are working towards a master's degree. It is all about winning in the classroom. If they have the ability and leave early and go to the National Football League, the most important thing you can have is your college degree. So that is the fundamental values of our football program. So why you see the inordinate amount of early enrollees or the 14 signees is a direct correlation to winning academically and winning in the classroom. We were also able to count a number of scholarships from last year's class, but really they are the number of scholarships available at mid year through graduation. That is why our seniors did a tremendous job. Alex Bullard for instance, it came right down to the wire, he really had to take some classes. I just passed him before coming here and he is a college graduate. We gain his scholarship now at midyear. Those 14 are a byproduct of winning. When we looked at what positions it started first and foremost with areas of need, we need offensive lineman, we need defensive lineman, we need skill players, we really need everything but it really came down to a hierarchy of our positional needs. But then It also comes down to the players that are available. The best players that are graduating midyear. So it is a whole conglomeration of all those components."
(On how the quarterbacks can prepare for spring football)
"While they are away it is self accountability, improving each and every day. Throwing on their own while they are on break, working out. Once they get back, overall leadership, the fine details that it takes, the quarterback characteristics that it takes. From a leadership standpoint, the ability to lead in the weight room, the ability to lead in the classroom, living their life the right way, being an example. The quarterback should be the example. They are the equivalent of a coach when they are on the field. It is their football program. The command presence that it takes as a quarterback, doing things the right way and the high level of consistency. We talk about consistency is performance, that is extremely critical at every position but it is really critical in winning football games at the quarterback position. And then once we get into specific drills and spring football it is who manages our offense the best, who takes care of the football and who can create plays. It is going to be an ongoing process and that evaluation tool already started Monday when we hit the ground running."